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Detailed explanation on Dynamics CRM – Azure Integration. Technologies, mechanisms, tools and issues are enclosed under three topics in three connected posts.

Connected Posts:
Dynamics CRM – Azure Integration (Part 1) : Create Azure Service Bus Namespace
Dynamics CRM – Azure Integration (Part 2) : Create Dynamics CRM Service Endpoint
Dynamics CRM – Azure Integration (Part 3) : Explore Service Bus Messages

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Detecting a Change in Dynamics CRM Records

In Dynamics CRM there are few ways of detecting record changes. It is really important to track\trigger changes in Dynamics CRM systems when synchronizing data between systems.

Change Tracking is a new feature comes with latest Dynamics CRM version and this feature can be used to get a bulk of records changed in an entity. It always provides changes compared to the last retrieval  of changes. Also, this will not raise the change as soon as it happens. Some code has to be executed externally and should get the changed records from the specific entity.

CRM Workflow executions in an event is another solution of detecting changes. With the real-time workflows, the workflow can be started before or after the change.

In this post, we discuss sending Plugin Execution Context to Azure and solving issues related to that.

 

Get the Plugin Execution Context Out

Plugins can be registered to track record changes. Plugin execution context has lots of information on the record change such as data changed, images, plugin step information etc. If we need to get the record changes and related information out of CRM we can use plugins and perform any action on that data. Also, we can integrate Dynamics CRM and Windows Azure using a Service Endpoint to Azure.

Plugin steps can be created for different entities at different events of Continue reading “Dynamics CRM – Azure Integration (Part 2) : Create Dynamics CRM Service Endpoint”